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Post by Admin on Apr 5, 2019 17:43:51 GMT
Canadian coach Brian Orser commented on the statement of the figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva. Two-time world and European champion said she was going to learn quad jumps next season. The 19-year-old figure skater became the third at the World Championships in Saitama Japan. “The ultra-si jumps are a huge risk,” Orser said in an interview with the Olympic Channel. “Especially with the new refereeing system: if you jump a triple axel, but fall from it, you immediately get minus five points. I think it will be the easiest to teach her the quadruple toe and the quadruple Salchow. We will start with salchow. While we are talking only about training, not about competitions. It seems to me that Eugene and I overcame the biggest obstacle - we switched to a new training system. I know that she is a fighter, but this season she had several tournaments that were not so good, she was not accustomed to this, because before that she was a kind of machine. Medvedeva is a two-time world champion, as well as a two-time silver medalist at the 2018 Olympics. She has been training under the guidance of Canadian specialist Orser since May 2018. Medvedeva previously worked in the group Eteri Tutberidze.
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2019 18:28:29 GMT
2018 Olympic silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva (Евгения Медведева) of Russia talks about what she has learned since last year, her music for the 2019-20 figure skating season, her tour with Stars on Ice, and more.
Two-time World Champion and two-time Olympic silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva is making her debut this spring in the Stars on Ice Canadian Tour. She also performed this year in the show’s Japan tour.
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Post by Admin on May 14, 2019 20:39:15 GMT
Around this time last year, the two-time World champion and two-time Olympic silver medallist sent shockwaves around the skating world when news broke that she was leaving her longtime Russian coach, Eteri Tutberidze, to train under Brian Orser and Tracy Wilson at the Toronto Cricket and Skating Club. In a difficult transition season that saw her uproot everything in order to move across the world with her mother, Zhanna, the Russian teenager certainly hasn’t had it easy. Speaking in a narrow hallway at the Scotiabank Arena ahead of this year’s Stars on Ice show in Toronto, a relaxed Medvedeva reflected on her first season with her new coaching team, her newfound love for Canada — which she considers solely her new “work” home — and her first time touring in North America. As anyone in figure skating will tell you, a lot can change in a few years. After winning back-to-back World titles in 2016 and 2017, Medvedeva was easily considered the most dominant force in ladies’ figure skating and seemed primed for Olympic glory. However, the unpredictability of injuries and the unexpected emergence of a compatriot three years her junior (Alina Zagitova) quickly saw that title slip from her grasp. Determined to prolong her competitive career for as long as she could, Medvedeva made the decision to switch to Orser a couple of months after the Olympics, and she struggled in large part to recapture the same magic of her first two senior seasons. Through all her struggles, the 19-year-old admits that she was able to discover a lot of things about herself, thanks in part to her strong support system. “I can say that I’m a really, really strong person,” she said with a big smile. “Last season, last year, I’ve just been through a lot of things — not always good things — through some bad things, but yeah… Now I’m here and things are going as it’s going and everything is fine.”
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Post by Admin on May 26, 2019 18:28:47 GMT
The tremors apparently did not affect the skaters’ well-being or spirits, with Medvedeva responding to it with a cheeky video posted on social media. Famous Russian figure skaters Evgenia Medvedeva and Alina Zagitova were in for a surprise as they took part in a rehearsal of Fantasy On Ice – 2019 show in Tokyo, when a magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck eastern Japan today, with tremors being felt at the venue where the event was taking place. http://instagram.com/p/Bx4EtkYh5Ty Fortunately, none of the skaters and spectators present at the venue appeared to be harmed by the calamity, with Medvedeva responding to the development with a cheeky Instagram video. "An earthquake just happened here", a man can be heard saying, to which Medvedeva playfully replies: "That was just me skating". http://instagram.com/p/BxyouaaBqqL The video elicited a somewhat mixed reaction online. While some praised Medvedeva’s grace and sense of humour, others berated her for an alleged display of narcissism, with one netizen, carilla17, joking about headlines like “Medvedeva puts on weight, causes earthquake in Japan”.
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Post by Admin on May 30, 2019 17:52:39 GMT
Russian figure skating ace Evgenia Medvedeva has shown backstage preparation for the Japanese show ‘Fantasy on ice,’ posting video of a tender dance with her teammate Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, who is also participating in the show. The two skaters are shown waving their hips moving to the slow music, hugging each other, and smiling to the camera. Singing “Dream of Me,” the two prominent athletes dance by the local rink's boards. http://instagram.com/p/ByEwTAUhMX7 Medvedeva captioned the video ‘How ladies are warming up’ and shared it with her Instagram followers.
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